{"id":348624,"date":"2026-03-16T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:40:08","slug":"i-survived-breast-cancer-but-i-lost-three-siblings-to-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348624\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I survived breast cancer but I lost three siblings to the disease\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">With the Irish Cancer Society\u2019s Daffodil Day coming up, S\u00edle Nic Suibhne recalls the day a mammogram changed her life \u2013 and how the disease has devastated her family\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S\u00edle Nic Suibhne at Rosses Point in Sligo. Photo: Brian Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cancer survivor284.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">S\u00edle Nic Suibhne at Rosses Point in Sligo. Photo: Brian Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">S\u00edle Nic Suibhne had her first mammogram in 2013, almost two years before she turned 50 as there was a family history of the disease \u2013 her older sister Kathleen had already gone through breast cancer. In 2015, S\u00edle was due to have her second mammogram with BreastCheck, the national breast screening programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cEverything was hunky dory [with the first mammogram], results were fine, so when the BreastCheck letter dropped in my letterbox in the February after my 50th, I didn\u2019t even think twice about not going,\u201d recalls S\u00edle, who works as a Special Needs Assistant (SNA) in Sligo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Irish Cancer Society\u2019s Daffodil Day coming up, S\u00edle Nic Suibhne recalls the day a mammogram changed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,59303],"class_list":["post-348624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-living-with-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}